The link between singer-songwriter Bob Dylan and writer Nora Ephron is mostly a forgotten footnote in pop culture history, but the story behind it all is absolutely fascinating.

WRITING
Without a Rosetta Stone for these centuries-old writing systems, the meaning of the texts may never be known.
For every speech, there are a bunch of versions that ended up on the writers' room floor. Here are 12 speeches that were written but, for a variety of reasons, never delivered.
The novel, which turns 100 this year, was so successful that it allowed Woolf to put in a bathroom she called “Mrs. Dalloway’s closet.”
“Dear Miss Saucy ... I hereby order you to give me as many kisses and as many hours of your company as I shall please to demand.”
How many have you come across?
In 1985, Chief Wiley went for a swim and was never seen or heard from again. What he left behind shocked his community.
The tale was composed as Stoker was working on his iconic vampire.
Plus, a simple trick that will help you identify most true cases of the passive voice. (Hint: It involves zombies.)
Series like R.L. Stine’s Goosebumps introduced '90s kids to horror at a young age.
“Once upon a midnight dreary” begins “The Raven,” setting the mood for one of the most recognizable poems written in English.
‘Severance’ author Ling Ma is a 2024 MacArthur Fellow; here are some other famous authors who were awarded the grants.
Because sometimes, periods, commas, colons, semi-colons, dashes, hyphens, apostrophes, question marks, exclamation points, quotation marks, brackets, parentheses, braces, and ellipses won't do.
Anna Sewell’s 19th-century novel about a horse named Black Beauty put the spotlight on animal welfare.
Celebrate the many contributions to literature that LGBTQ+ authors have made with these great reads by Danez Smith, Dorothy Allison, Alexander Chee, Alice Walker, and more.